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Peter Morgan, the creator and showrunner of Netflix’s “The Crown,” has signed a multi-year overall deal with the streaming service, a spokesperson for the company told TheWrap on Friday.

Under the new pact, which was set just ahead of the royal drama’s Olivia Colman-led Season 3 launch on Nov. 17, Morgan will create and develop new TV series and movies for Netflix.

Along with Colman, the third season of “The Crown” stars Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret, Tobias Menzies as the Duke of Edinburgh, Josh O’Connor as Prince Charles, Erin Doherty as Princess Anne, Ben Daniels as Lord Snowdon, Jason Watkins as Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten.

Also Read: 'The Crown' Season 3 Teaser: Throne Passes From 'Young Woman' Claire Foy to 'Old Bat' Olivia Colman (Video)

Since the show, which has already been renewed for Season 4, portrays the long reign of Queen Elizabeth,

Philip Gips, a graphic designer, advertising executive and creator of posters for hit films including Alien, Rosemary’s Baby and more, died Thursday in White Plains, NY. He was 88 and his death was announced by the Endeavor agency.

Gips was born in the Bronx on March 28, 1931. After graduating from the Cooper Union and the Yale School of Art and Architecture, he worked with some of the most influential artists of the era, including Saul Bass. In the early 1960s, he opened a Manhattan-based advertising firm with Lou Klein, then later partnered with Steve Frankfurt and created Frankfurt Gips Balkind, a highly successful venture that lasted until the early 1990s.

During his career, Gips was the principal art director and creative visionary on some of the most recognizable movie posters and corporate logos of the era, many of which remain cultural touchstones today. Among his best-known posters is the ad for

Disney has set in motion a new Inspector Gadget live-action film, which is being produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, the producers of the live-action Aladdin released earlier this year. Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell have been tapped to adapt the script based on the famous dense cyborg police inspector, who was first introduced to audiences in the 1980s animated series.

Matthew Broderick played the character in the 1999 David Kellogg-directed live-action adaptation which was met with negative reviews and performed moderately at the box office with a take of almost $135 million worldwide. A direct-to-dvd sequel followed in 2003.

This project adds to Disney’s growing slate of forthcoming live-action versions of aminated films including Lady and the Tramp, Mulan, Cruella, Little Mermaid, and Lilo & Stitch.

THR was first to break Inspector Gadget news.

Updated, Late Friday Pm w/chart: Joker continues to rob a record amount of cash from the October box office with Friday looking at an increased $39.8M, now putting the Warner Bros./Village Roadshow/Bron Studios pic’s 3-day at $94M. One rival distribution source believes that Joker, in play at 73 offshore territories, is heading to a worldwide opening between $188M-$194M. That would be right behind Venom‘s opening October global record of $207.4M.

For director Todd Phillips, Joker reps a career opening record, besting the 3-day domestic start of The Hangover 2 ($85.9M). It’s also an opening record for Joaquin Phoenix, far exceeding the $60.1M 2002 opening of Signs, and a great major studio comeback for the three time Oscar nominee who has starred of late in a string of indie pics like Mary Magdalene, the Sisters Brothers and You Were Never Really Here. And for Robert De Niro,

Diahann Carroll, the captivating singer and actress who came from the Bronx to win a Tony Award, receive an Oscar nomination and make television history with her turns on Julia and Dynasty, died Friday. She was 84.

Carroll died at her home in Los Angeles after a long bout with cancer, her daughter, producer-journalist Suzanne Kay, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Carroll was known as a Las Vegas and nightclub performer and for her performances on Broadway and in the Hollywood musicals Carmen Jones and Porgy & Bess when she was approached by an NBC executive to star as Julia Baker, a widowed ...

NBC's latest development project has an apocalyptic edge.

The network has given a script commitment to The Vault, a drama from writer Jesse Lasky (Code Black), sister studio Universal TV and Keshet Studios.

The series centers on Annie, a geobiologist. When a cataclysmic event seemingly wipes out the planet, the survival of humanity rests on her, as she has been setting up a state-of-the-art facility in the Arctic known as the Vault. It houses a dozen experts in their respective fields with specific skill sets that could be essential in rebuilding civilization.

Lasky, who also worked on ABC's Revenge, will ...

Warner Bros presented a very eclectic but solidly awards-friendly slate at The Contenders London today, headed up by Todd Phillips’ recent Venice Golden Lion winner Joker. “Most composers have a director they work with, but I — accidentally — had an actor,” laughed Joker composer Hildur Guenadóttir. In this case, the actor was Joaquin Phoenix, who’d played Jesus Christ in one of Guenadóttir’s previous projects, Mary Magdalene. This time, though, the mercurial actor plays a very different kind of messiah. Taking the title role in Phillips’ controversial new release, Phoenix stars as an embattled clown who accidentally becomes the face of a violent anarchist movement in early-80s Gotham City.

Speaking to Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman, Guenadóttir revealed that, initially, she’d been hired by Phillips simply to come back to him with some ideas rather than a full score. “Todd contacted me probably half a year before they started shooting,

If President Donald Trump is “going down, he’s bringing a plus one,” Stephen Colbert said during his Friday night Late Show monologue, referring to Vice President Mike Pence and the Ukraine controversy, which has prompted an impeachment inquiry.

“The looming story in America right now is the looming impeachment of Donald Trump over his documented and repeated efforts to get foreign governments to interfere in our election by digging up dirt on Joe Biden,” Colbert said while setting up a game he called “Corrupt or Dumb.”

The host then

Nearly a decade after the start of the zombie apocalypse as shown in “The Walking Dead” and “Fear the Walking Dead” comes a third new drama in that universe. Although it is still untitled, the show has been in production and AMC just released a trailer for it.

In it, a character named Iris (played by “The Red Line’s” Aliyah Royale) gives a speech about how her dad is fighting for the future and “to get us back to where we were.” But it clearly won’t be easy. As she follows, “It may take generations to reach the

AMC dropped the first trailer for its untitled third “Walking Dead” series at New York Comic Con on Saturday.

Set to debut in spring 2020, stars Alexa Mansour and Aliyah Royale and focuses on “the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it,” per AMC. “Some will become heroes. Some will become villains. In the end, all of them will be changed forever. Grown-up and cemented in their identities, both good and bad.”

Nico Tortorella, Annet Mahendru, Nicolas Cantu and Hal Cumpston also star.

Also Read: 'The Walking Dead' Renewed for Season 11, Lauren Cohan to Return as Series Regular

Jordan Vogt-Roberts will direct the series, which is co-created by Scott Gimple, chief content officer of AMC’s “Walking Dead” universe, and franchise veteran Matt Negrete, who will serve as showrunner.

The trailer premiered at “The Walking Dead’s” New York Comic Con panel on Saturday, where

Following a string of high-profile cast departures – via voluntarily exits off-screen or killed off in-show – The Walking Dead revealed Saturday at New York Comic-Con that one fan-favorite character would return to the franchise for the just-announced Season 11 of the AMC zombie series.

Lauren Cohan, who portrayed Maggie Greene up through Season Nine of The Walking Dead, will come back as a series regular next season. Cohan was a surprise guest during The Walking Dead‘s New York Comic-Con panel, where her return was also announced:

The moment @LaurenCohan announced she

“The Walking Dead” has been picked up for an 11th season, with recently departed star Lauren Cohan (Maggie) set to return as a series regular, AMC announced on Saturday.

The news was revealed at the show’s New York Comic Con panel, with Cohan making a surprise appearance alongside the rest of the cast.

“The Walking Dead burst out of the gate ten years ago as a genre show that had all the character depth of a top-tier prestige drama,” AMC president Sarah Barnett said in a statement. “And now ten years later – led by the brilliant Angela Kang and fueled by one of the most consistently talented casts in television – this phenomenon is flourishing creatively, with critics and audiences embracing its reset. We’re delighted to welcome back Lauren Cohan, she has meant so much to this show and its passionate, global fanbase, who are in for a fantastic ride over the coming months.

Well that was certainly a (ratings) smackdown. Last night, Fox’s “Friday Night SmackDown” debut drew 3.869 million total viewers, according to Nielsen. The premiere landed a 1.4 rating among in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic, according to preliminary data, which doubled Friday’s No. 2 show, “Hawaii Five-0.”

As expected, “SmackDown” fared better in the key demo than it did overall. Though it was easily primetime’s highest-rated show last night, “Friday Night SmackDown” finished fifth in terms of total viewers, behind CBS’ “Blue Bloods,” “Hawaii 5-0,” “Magnum Pi” and NBC’s “The Blacklist.”

The “Friday Night SmackDown” debut results destroyed “SmackDown Live’s” 2019 averages on the show’s former home, USA Network, and its former weeknight, Tuesdays. There and then, the weekly series averaged 2.066 million total viewers, 850,000 of which came from the key demo.

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USA’s final

(We’ve got some big spoilers ahead for “Joker”)

Todd Phillips’s “Joker” is a crazy movie, and a crazy experience. For a lot of reasons, but the biggest one maybe isn’t what you think. Joker origin stories have been done before, so that’s not the big one. Stories about a major villain that don’t feature a hero have also been done before so it’s not that either.

No, it’s crazy because it’s tough to connect the dots between the character of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) and the character of the Joker as depicted in every other piece of media that the Joker has ever been included in, because this guy just doesn’t really feel like the Joker. In fact it makes us wonder if he’s not even the real Joker at all.

Yes, like most depictions of the Joker, Arthur is

Weeks of controversial headlines aren’t getting in the way of a record-breaking weekend for Warner Bros.’ “Joker.”

After taking home $39.9 million in Friday domestic ticket sales — the biggest October opening day ever — the R-rated supervillain film is eyeing a huge $92 million weekend total.

That’s on the higher end of initial box office projections, which saw the film debuting in the $80 million to $95 million range. Either way, the film is likely to beat previous October opening weekend record holder “Venom,” which opened to $80.3 million last year.

“The Joker” has generated widespread controversy for its villainous depiction of evil, prompting some theaters to increase security. Additionally, family members of the 2012 Aurora shooting victims — a mass shooting that occurred at a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises — signed a letter to Warner Bros. CEO Ann Sarnoff expressing concerns about the film’s release. Although the families ultimately refrained from calling for

“The Walking Dead” has been renewed for an 11th season, AMC announced Saturday. Additionally, Lauren Cohan, who played Maggie Greene on the post-apocalyptic drama, will return as a series regular in the new season.

“The Walking Dead burst out of the gate 10 years ago as a genre show that had all the character depth of a top-tier prestige drama,” said Sarah Barnett, President of AMC Networks Entertainment Group & AMC Studios. “And now 10 years later — led by the brilliant Angela Kang and fueled by one of the most consistently talented casts in television — this phenomenon is flourishing creatively, with critics and audiences embracing its reset.

A few years ago, Michaela Anne was at a roadhouse bar outside Joshua Tree, California, where she met a woman named Madeline, who told her she was a stripper. The two got to talking: about their lives, their careers, their mutual love of essential oils. When Anne left the bar later that night, she thought to herself, I’m going to write a song about that girl.

Flash forward to the winter of 2018, when Anne was spending time in the Arizona desert, writing songs for what would become her third solo record.

Warner Bros. has a reason to smile this weekend, as Village Roadshow/DC’s “Joker” is primed to blow by multiple October box office records. It already has one in the bag after grossing $39 million from 4,300 screens on Friday — including $13.3 million from Thursday previews — giving it the biggest opening day ever in October history.

After that big start, “Joker” is now estimated to reach the top end of independent tracker projections with a $92-93 million opening. That beats the October opening weekend record set last year by “Venom” ($80.2 million), and also beats the openings of fellow R-Rated comic book movie “Logan” ($88.4 million) and Warner Bros.’ last big release, “It: Chapter Two” ($91 million).

Also Read: 'Joker' Film Review: Joaquin Phoenix Channels Classic Robert De Niro in Grungy '70s Homage

As expected, millennial males were the top demographic on Friday for “Joker,” as CinemaScore polls were 64% male, 68% over the

Michael Stipe has released his new song “Your Capricious Soul,” the singer’s first release since the breakup of R.E.M. in 2011.

“I took a long break from music, and I wanted to jump back in,” Stipe said in a statement. “I love ‘Your Capricious Soul’ – it’s my first solo work. I want to add my voice to this exciting shift in consciousness.”

“Your Capricious Soul” – which Stipe has performed live, including its debut prior to a Patti Smith concert in New York in May 2019 – finds him singing

[This story contains spoilers for Joker]

When actor Brett Cullen joined Joker, he didn't realize his character would be at the crux of some of the film's most integral — and most debated — moments. In September 2018, Cullen stepped in to play Thomas Wayne, father of future Batman Bruce Wayne, following the exit of Alec Baldwin. He would go on to share a demanding scene with Joaquin Phoenix, whose Arthur Fleck confronts the billionaire mayoral candidate with a question that lingers well after the film ends: Is Thomas Wayne actually his father?

While Wayne and others attack the credibility of Arthur'...